Take The City And Run

Proof that outsourcing work to India doesn’t always work out:
“She died in a freak rugby accident” became “She died in a rugby match for people with deformities.”
The lesson here is that subtitles for movies should probably be translated by someone from either the country of origin or destination.

Directed by Zack Snyder
300 could very well go down as a watershed moment in filmmaking. No, it’s not a particularly great movie; it is entertaining, but it’s not exactly an exercise in sophisticated storytelling. It is, however, groundbreaking as far as technical achievement. For years now, anytime a movie laden with CGI and special effects […]

1. JFK
2. 35 Up
3. Beauty And The Beast
4. The Silence Of The Lambs
5. Defending Your Life
6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
7. Dead Again
8. Thelma & Louise
9. Bugsy
10. L.A. Story

1. Glengarry Glen Ross
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Unforgiven
4. Raise The Red Lantern
5. Hard-Boiled
6. Batman Returns
7. Husbands And Wives
8. Singles
9. El Mariachi
10. The Player

1. Short Cuts
2. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
3. Dazed And Confused
4. Gettysburg
5. The War Room
6. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
7. Groundhog Day
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas
9. Schindler’s List
10. Manhattan Murder Mystery

1. Children Of Men
2. The Prestige
3. Brick [Film Log]
4. United 93 [Film Log]
5. Why We Fight
6. Block Party [Film Log]
7. Babel
8. The Proposition [Film Log]
9. A Scanner Darkly [Film Log]
10. Pan’s Labyrinth

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Hoop Dreams
3. Heavenly Creatures
4. The Hudsucker Proxy
5. The Professional
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Bullets Over Broadway
8. Ed Wood
9. Exotica
10. Quiz Show

1. Before Sunrise
2. Safe
3. Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
4. Heat
5. Babe
6. Braveheart
7. Toy Story
8. Se7en
9. Twelve Monkeys
10. Palookaville

Directed by Chris Paine
It does succeed in its main goal of making you wonder why electric cars were forced out of production, and offers a number of potential answers, therefore it’s a success on that level. And it’s not badly made, but it is a little overly sentimental at times.
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Directed by Marshall Curry
A well made documentary about Newark politics. At first, I thought the director’s narration was going to annoy me, but its inclusion began to make sense once his attempts to cover the incumbent mayor (his subject’s oppostion) were shown as completely rebuffed and unreasonably aggressive. He was dragged into his own story […]

Directed by Woody Allen
Somewhat reminiscent of Manhattan Murder Mystery at times, but, while Scarlett Johansson is entertaining, she doesn’t pull off neuroticism as well as Diane Keaton. The banter between the leads feels much more forced here than in previous Allen films, which really messes with the pacing. Not a bad film, but also not […]

Directed by David Slade
Stylistically interesting, and mostly well-acted. Even has an interesting premise with great potential to be compelling. But, somehow, it doesn’t quite come together in a way that truly satisfies.
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